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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

The Booker goes blokey: what David Szalay's Flesh tells us about masculinity in fiction

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David Szalay's Flesh is many things: stark, relentless, deeply bodily. But above all, it may be the most blokey Booker winner we've...
Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Where have all the epics gone? A revisit to Lonesome Dove

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I’ve just finished reading  Lonesome Dove . Again. Though technically a reread, it felt startlingly fresh – like coming back to a place you ...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Why the Literary western endures — and what’s driving Lonesome Dove’s TikTok resurgence

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There’s something quietly electric about  Lonesome Dove’s return in the BookTok universe: the dust-swept epics and tender, layered characte...
Friday, 30 May 2025

The Great American Novel: 15 books that define a nation

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Last time I wrote about what the Great American Novel is, where it came from and whether it was still needed or even possible. Everyone, inc...
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